A new and different way to learn the world

About

Two years ago, I started thinking about how many people I interact with from other countries everyday. I am lucky my parents worked with a lot of people from different countries to do their job. They were self employed, which means said people came to our house so I got to learn a lot about other cultures and countries. I got thinking; how can I expose and teach my kids?

Travel was out; too much money and time. Dragging people home to tell my kids about their homelands seemed a bit rude and could even be dangerous – and depending on willingness of said people, could land us in jail. Long story short, my husband and I started doing “International days”. During these days we color flags, listen to music, read fairy-tales, drive the roads on Google maps, learn some facts about the countries/states and (everyone’s favorite) we prepare a big meal of homemade food from whichever country or state we have picked. Sometimes, if we can, we order dinner from a restaurant that specializes the area of the world to show the difference between homemade and restaurant food.

Over the last two years we have done 16 different international days and they have grown and changed. Now we are going to start a blog, to share and show all about these days. We will most likely yap about other things as well but everything needs a start and our blog starts with international days.